The Red Badge Of Courage

Published in 1895, Stephen Crane's epic novel of young Henry Fleming, a soldier in the American Civil War, who at first harbors romantic illusions of war, but becomes enraged at the injustice of war after witnessing the horrors of it firsthand. Considered a masterpiece of literature and the also the first modern war novel, author Stephen Crane wrote it with no first hand knowledge of war, but instead relied on anthology texts to paint his vivid depiction of the war.